DETROIT - The first game between the Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Clippers following their blockbuster trade was sure to an intriguing watch.

Problem for the Pistons was they spent too much time, especially in the fourth quarter, spectating.

It's great they have a go-to guy on offense in Blake Griffin, someone they can isolate and count on to produce points. But they must play with more motion, move the ball around and get others involved.

That team play was missing Friday, when the Clippers dominated the fourth quarter and prevailed 108-95 at Little Caesars Arena.

"They switched everything, and we just stood around," Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said. "Even though we've been winning, we have that dilemma a little bit. What we got to figure out is how are we going to balance getting Blake the ball and not be a team that's standing around watching. We had absolutely no ball movement, particularly down the stretch in the fourth quarter, and no player movement. It was just a stand-around quarter, so every play was one-on-one in an isolation. Not just Blake. Other guys. Very bad basketball."

Griffin had 19 points, eight rebounds and six assists, but shot only 7-of-19. Andre Drummond missed several shots near the rim, shooting 5-of-15, and finished with 12 points.

The Pistons led 80-77 after three quarters, but the Clippers, led by 26 points from Lou Williams, outscored the Pistons 31-15 in the fourth, when Detroit made only 5-of-19 from the floor.

"We didn't obviously play the way we wanted to. I didn't play the way I wanted to," Griffin said.

"I thought we fought at times. We just didn't come up with the plays, especially in the fourth quarter, and they did."

The Pistons (27-27) had their five-game winning streak snapped and fell to 4-1 with Griffin in the lineup. The Clippers (28-25) are 3-0 with former Pistons Tobias Harris (12 points) and Avery Bradley (10 points).

"We're not functioning smoothly offensively," Van Gundy said. "There's probably some defensive adjustments we need to make, too. But part of the defensive thing is we're not playing hard enough and that they need to take responsibility for as players. The offensive part, we're all in it together, but I got to get that figured out on how we're going to play."

Said Griffin: "Got to do a better job of maybe not pounding the ball inside so much, getting on the perimeter, pick and roll, short roll, mixing it up. I got to do a better job of making sure everybody's involved in the offense."

Reggie Bullock scored 16 of his 19 points in the first half, when Detroit led 56-52. He was not a factor in the second half, taking only two shots.

"They started switching everything onto him and making sure they had a body on him," Van Gundy said. "And Reggie's not a guy that you go to him and he goes one-on-one. He's got to play out of movement and other people getting him the ball."

Bullock played with Griffin in Los Angeles and knows there's a remedy for this issue.

"We still moved without the ball there, too," Bullock said. "I know how to read when to post him up, when to come back over and get him a re-post, but it's just about everybody playing on one anchor and everyone playing together."

Van Gundy was even more disappointed in being out-rebounded 57-40.

"That's something we've got to take to heart," he said. "But we've got to figure out the offensive part of it. That was very bad."

It was a high-intensity, physical game. Bradley, after getting tangled up with Griffin under the basket in the first half, gave the Pistons forward shove. They exchanged words, resulting in a double technical. In the second half, Montrezl Harrell received a technical after jawing with Drummond.

Griffin said playing against his former team wasn't quite the same due to the Clippers' roster turnover.

"There's just one guy (DeAndre Jordan) that was there when I first got here," Griffin said. "At the start of the season we had nine new guys. Still, it's a team I'm familiar with. It was a little weird. It's the first time I've ever done something like that. It's out of the way."